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wild garlic leaves
We have been enjoying these for the past couple of weeks. They grow in the shady bottom of our garden around the bluebells.
Apparently they are also known as ramsons? Anyway, I know I am lucky having them in the garden but I have seen them growing wild all over. So far we have had some soup with the leaves and young nettle tops which was lovely. For breakfast this morning we had them shredded into scrabbled eggs and I have just made a kind of cream cheese and garlic leaf paste to stuff under the roast chicken skin. And we have the first jersey royals and English asparagus- heaven! |
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You lucky so and so !
![]() I wonder if I can buy some starters of the wild garlic and plant them so they can spread. Never seen them here in Belgium. Also, I thought that bluebells and wild garlic didn't grow well together.
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Wild garlic seems to be a bit of an "in" ingredient at the moment. ...but I'm not complaining, it's delicious.
Got a tub of wild garlic pesto from my local farmer's market last week, wild garlic instead of basil and cashew nuts instead of pine nuts. Had it with pasta and as part of a panini filling with mozzarella and tomatoes and it was gorgeous...although anybody I breathed on afterwards might have disagreed! |
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You lucky so and so !
![]() I wonder if I can buy some starters of the wild garlic and plant them so they can spread. Never seen them here in Belgium. Also, I thought that bluebells and wild garlic didn't grow well together. ![]() |
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Be warned, years ago my friend gave a few bulbs to his mum to plant in her small garden. They obviously loved it because they spread like wild fire and took over her garden. It took her years to get rid!!!
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The smell of wild garlic when I am out walking makes me ravenous! It beats a garden of flowers anytime.
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our front garden gets covered with the stuff and really smells garlicky when it rains, may have to dig some up and transfer it somewhere as we're going to pave over the front soon, also the amount of cats I've seen weeing on it's a bit off putting!
Is it just the leaves you eat or can you eat the rooty bit as well? |
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Be warned, years ago my friend gave a few bulbs to his mum to plant in her small garden. They obviously loved it because they spread like wild fire and took over her garden. It took her years to get rid!!!
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I found a lovely looking recipe the other day for chicken wrapped in wild garlic leaves and parma ham, panfried and then a sauce made by deglazing the pan. Must have a go. I gather that wild garlic is very invasive so we are trying to pot-grow it.
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I found a lovely looking recipe the other day for chicken wrapped in wild garlic leaves and parma ham, panfried and then a sauce made by deglazing the pan. Must have a go. I gather that wild garlic is very invasive so we are trying to pot-grow it.
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